SPREAD Zinefest is a reoccurring festival focusing on self-published art; books, zines and prints. With a zine market, zine library, workshops, lectures and various events organized by various initiatives. The 4th edition of SPREAD took take place in September in collaboration with Sign and ARTisBOOK.

 

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zinemarket

For two days het resort turned into a market with DIY publishers and independent publishing houses w/ Albina N + A Little Haunting + Anastasia Krylova + Beniamin Visarion + Celestine Kronberger + Converger Studio + feeble + Gebr. de Vries + Guus & Daan + Hansje Struijk & Jan Dirk Adams + Hocus Bogus Publishing + Janouk ter Veer / Janouk-Illustrations + Jemin Kim / Jemighty + Jop Luberti / Cut-Rate Hi-Jinx + Kamile & Jorien + Knetterijs + Lee Teng Poh + Lea Shamaa + Lesbianas Concentradas + Luz Mercedes + Lu Lin / Not Just a Collective + Luz Mercedes + Local Group + manirosse + Manuel Rodriguez + mara piccione + Marieke Pras / SPOUK + Nikki Roosma & Dalou van Eembergen + Nostos Zine + Radu-Mihai Tanasa / Apartament 6 + Sophia Xu + Terry Bleu + The Day Of + Tess van Dorp + Tim Daniel Stienstra & Anna Fleuri Wolters + Toy Never Toy +  studio salt, pepper and peace + Simulacrum + Valiz

 

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Rietlanden Women’s Office Designing Together: On the Ornamental in MsHeresies

Emerging from the latest issue of our publishing project MsHeresies, this talk will be about the ornamental in collaborative graphic design practices. We discuss the urgent aspects of ornamentation and the messy history of unauthored graphic design made collaboratively. We see the ornament as a trace of collaborative work and as a point where aesthetics and politics intertwine.

 

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Kexin Hao: Total Body Workout

Total Body Workout leads you through a ‘total body’ experience in which history unfolds not in chronological order but in a head-to-toe sequence. How is our body scripted and shaped by the times it lives in? How are national agendas and political ideologies woven into bodily semiotics? How does one’s body memory become an integral part of hegemonic historical narratives? And how do we inhabit a historical

and totalised body?

 

Based on nationwide physical exercise routines and mass gymnastic performances in Asia, the Eastern Bloc and the United States, Total Body Workout proposes a recomposition of the existing corporal movements and a reconfiguration of the past in the present. Here and now, we work out the total body.

 

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Buurthuis 2 de film

Director - Josefin Arnell

17 min, HD, 2024

 

A real-estate developer who is a Vampire wants to convert the local community house into a luxury spa. The city man gets nervous. The Vampire calls a friend: the Wizard, who casts a spell on the neighborhood to create chaos. Soon the neighbors organize resistance.

 

Buurthuis 2 is a fantasy film realized with the community center De Witte Boei in Amsterdam’s Wittenburg neighborhood. Visitors and staff take on the roles of vampires, wizards, and zombies who are entangled in a real-estate development scheme to turn the residential neighborhood into a luxury spa resort. Anchored by a Dutch fairytale about the pitfalls of preposterous wealth, the plot and characters were developed in scriptwriting workshops together with the artist. In the process, Josefin Arnell explores the social fabric of a place that is highly specific and at the same time faces the same problems as many other communities.

The film draws from and reflects on the historic social ideals of community centers in the Netherlands, that used to serve as a tool to educate the lower classes. What does it mean to be a “good” citizen in the context of increasing wealth disparity, housing shortages, and welfare cuts?

 

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Lu Lin Reframing Safe Spaces: (Self-)Publishing in Basic Needs

Can we still believe there is a safe space? Through the talk, “Reframing Safe Spaces: Publishing in Basic Needs,” Lu Lin will elaborate on her ongoing research centered on the notion and controversiality of “safe space.” Using a research-in-practice approach, the talk will share her research in progress, focusing on the questions: “What is a ‘safe space’? For whom? How can (self-)publishing mediate and intervene in matters of safety across cultural perspectives and practices?”

 

To discuss these questions from various points of entry, her research-in-practice divides notions of safety into three axes based on basic human needs: clothing, food, and shelter. By contextualizing the topic of “safe spaces” within these three axes, Lu will present specific projects, such as Homesick Restaurant and Reading My panties, to illustrate the praxis of investigating and creating safe spaces in the field.

 

 

SEP 28

12:00–17:00  zinemarket

13:00–14:00  talk: Rietland Woman’s Office

15:00             activity: Total Body Workout, Kexin Hao

ongoing         film: Buurthuis 2 de film, Josefin Arnell

 

SEP 29

12:00–17:00  zinemarket

13:00–14:00  talk: Lu Lin

16:00             activity: bingo

ongoing         film: Buurthuis 2 de film, Josefin Arnell

 

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